Sunday, June 16, 2013

Don't disrespect the alpha

Rupert Murdoch's wife Wendi Deng was ‘totally blindsided’ by his decision to sue for divorce, her friends have claimed. The 82-year-old tycoon is said to have gone to great lengths to be seen to be pursuing his normal schedule as recently as last Tuesday – when he was due to preside at a Los Angeles gala.

However, an acquaintance of the couple says that during Tuesday afternoon Mr Murdoch gave the first clue that ‘something was up’ when he abruptly cancelled his appearance to honour one of his oldest friends, Fox film studio chairman Jim Gianopulos.

Two days later a tersely worded document was filed at the New York State Supreme Court stating the power couple’s 14-year marriage had ‘broken down irretrievably’.

You have to read Wendy Deng's career to believe it. First she parlays a middle-aged married man's attraction to her into a visa sponsor , then she seduces the husband and replaces the wife, obtaining a green card in the process. Then she leaves the man, seduces the married Murdoch, and manages to convince him to marry her as well.

What's fascinating is that all she had to do was behave like a respectful wife to one of the most powerful men on the planet, but she couldn't hide her contempt for his inability to see her as she was long enough to see him to his grave. Instead, she did the one thing she couldn't do - challenge the alpha - and Murdoch promptly did what alphas do to challengers and crushed her.

It's a remarkable sum of stupidities. Murdoch had to know her history and should have known she was a pure platinum gold digger. Deng had to know that however old and tired Murdoch is, he didn't become rich and powerful by being the pushover his behavior had led her to conclude he was. It merely goes to show that the vagaries of intersexual relations trump success, wealth, and intelligence.

Meh, she wanted money. She has been married 14 years and 2 kids. Her settlement is probably mid 9 figures. Sure she could have had much more (though it is unlikely he was ever going to leave her control of his empire), but even in failure she is still more successful economically than 99.99% of women out there.

As for him, he can go find himself another 35 year old to be smitten with and enjoy the next decade of his life.

These divorce settlement laws need to change. No way she should get a shit load of money that she didn't help create. What you get out is proportional to what you put in with perhaps some additional amount provided for years spent caring full-time for very young children.

He is divorcing her (against the bible), why shouldn't she be entitled to a payday?

If you aren't religious, they have a contract, which he negotiated with her in good faith, he should honor it.

I would also argue that being a socialite, hosting, chick chatting with client's wives, etc. does help generate income/profit. My wife has helped me close several deals in addition to her family friends being a source of several other deals as well. On a commission basis it has probably been worth 8-12%.

"If you aren't religious, they have a contract, which he negotiated with her in good faith, he should honor it."

Truthfully, yes. It's accurate to state he is breaching the contract, thus he should be made to pay a penalty.

The key is PROPORTIONATE to the wealth she helped create by her forgoing her career/etc.. to be a wife. Can't say she did all that much.

But i'll care about it a lot more once we start imposing PROPORTIONATE penalties on women (67% of whom) who frivolously blow up their marriages for no reason but feeling 'unhaaaaaaapy'.

Wheres all the talk of honoring contracts and holding to account on them? Shouldn't the men be entitled to a payday for the women divorcing them? Maybe instead of a financial payout, they just get free blowjobs until they remarry?

You could argue he made a bad deal, and she made a good one, but he wasn't forced to marry her at gunpoint. Proportionate is irrelevant at that point.

And when you get married the state provides you with a default prenup, just like it does a will when you die. Its clearly not a good one for men, and any man that doesn't have the presence of mind to either a) get a biblical only marriage, or b) submit an alternate economic and social secular contract is a damn fool and deserves what they get at this point.

As to your other questions, if I were King of the Universe the only way you could get marital assets, spousal support, or custody of children past weekend visitation rights is if you prove up adultery, impotence, physical abuse or substance abuse (including gambling).

The owing sexual favors would be amusing, but forcing somebody to labor is too much like slavery. The courts squash anything that looks like that. However, it is common to restrict the ability of people to labor. Such that a woman could in theory be required to abstain from engaging in sexual conduct or pay a penalty, such as lose her spousal support.